Car dealer sentenced to eight months in prison for fraud

A woman was given an eight-month suspended prison sentence by the court in Brest (Finistère) on Monday.

She appeared for non-declaration of income and failure to register in the trade and companies register of her business specializing in the sale of used cars.

She was incarcerated following a first conviction and will therefore return to detention, indicates

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The respondent had previously been convicted of participating in a fraud involving the sale of vehicles with doctored odometers.

The practice made it possible to resell the models more expensive than what they were worth.

An investigation had uncovered 24 embezzlements of this type.

Assisted by a translator, the woman in her forties had claimed not to have been aware of the scam and to have contented herself with signing documents presented by her brother.

She had been banned from French territory for five years and that of managing a business for 15 years.

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• Brest

• Brittany

• Conviction

• Labor Code

• Justice